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The Border Is a Back Door for U.S. Device Searches. Know Your Rights: What To Do If You're Stopped By Police, Immigration Agents or the FBI. Ezra Klein: Why Unions Are Worth Fighting For. GOP budget cuts would kill 700,000 jobs: report. By Sahil KapurMonday, February 28, 2011 12:30 EDT WASHINGTON – The Republican budget proposal to sharply cut federal spending would cost 700,000 jobs through 2012, according to the independent analyst Moody’s.

In a new report obtained Monday by the Washington Post, Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi analyzes the House Republican budget proposal cutting spending by $61 billion this year and projects that it will curtail job growth. “The House Republicans’ proposal would reduce 2011 real GDP growth by 0.5% and 2012 growth by 0.2%.
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Veterans more likely to be homeless, study says. By William M.

Welch, USA TODAY Updated 2/10/2011 6:29:21 AM | Military veterans are much more likely to be homeless than other Americans, according to the government's first in-depth study of homelessness among former servicemembers.
Judge Jim Gray on The Six Groups Who Benefit From Drug Prohibition. Mapping America — Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey. State of the Nation. My first act of civil disobedience was a protest I led in fifth grade against a teacher who wouldn’t call on the girls as often as the boys.

And I was angry. In high school, when I volunteered for Planned Parenthood, I walked past the throng of anti-choice protestors, with their disgusting signs and false pamphlets and atrocious chants about “baby killers,” and I donated my time and money and put a bumper sticker on my car. And I was angry. In college, I watched the theft of the White House.
Sen Bernie Sanders Amazing Speech DEC 02 2010 .flv.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it had filed 16-count charges at a federal high court in Abuja against Cheney, Halliburton Chief Executive David Lesar and two other executives, in a case dating back to the mid-1990s.
Federal judge pleads guilty to drug charges. By the CNN Wire Staff November 20, 2010 2:39 a.m.

Danny Davis (D-Ill.) shot a warning on Tuesday morning to former President Bill Clinton, coming to Chicago to stump for rival Rahm Emanuel: Stay out. Davis said that if Clinton did campaign for Emanuel, it would "fracture" and perhaps break his warm relationship with the African American community if he came "to town and participate overtly in efforts to thwart the legitimate political aspirations of Chicago's Black community.
" Emanuel spokesman Ben LaBolt declined comment. Emanuel is the front-runner in the Feb. 22 Chicago mayoral primary, a non-partisan election where if no one gets over 50 percent, then the top two contenders face an April 5 general election run-off.

Davis and former Sen.
9 in custody as Detroit police hunt for serial rapist. Police have detained nine men in a search for a serial rapist, says Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee.

NEW: Detroit's police chief defends response and his asking men to protect women7 women have been sexually assaulted in Detroit in the past two weeks, police sayChief Ralph Godbee says he believes a single perpetrator committed all the attacks9 men arrested on unrelated charges are "persons of interest," the chief says. DNC bans corporate cash from convention. Washington (CNN)—The Democratic National Committee will not accept corporate contributions or donations from lobbyists to help fund the 2012 Democratic National Convention, a committee spokesman said on late Friday afternoon.

Christianity now a minority religion in Great Britain - Philadelphia atheism. According to the British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA), the number of Christians in Great Britain is now down to 42%.

Those who claim no religion are up to 51% and is trending. While this may seem surprising here in the United States, it really isn’t all that surprising to those in England. Out of the three political parties there, two are led by open atheists and the third party is led by a Prime Minister who claims that his faith comes and goes.

You can find all the questions and answers (including the answers of Independent Party candidate, Scott Lee Cohen, Green Party candidate Rich Whitney, and Libertarian candidate, Lex Green) here: Please read and make an informed decision on Tuesday- if you haven't made that decision yet in early voting. The following are highlights of Pat Quinn and Bill Brady's answers to certain questions from the Chicago Tribune's on-line election page: Question 1. WikiLeaks has caused little lasting damage, says US state department.